New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA has uncovered how high mutational levels coincide with later life and link to aging markers. Mitochondria are ...

The development of cancer is not a process triggered immediately by the emergence of an oncogenic mutation. There is growing ...

Using next generation gene sequencing techniques, cancer researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified more than 3,000 new mutations involved in certain kidney cancers, findings that ...

Blood stem cells with driver mutations may be more likely to survive during clonal expansion. Some of these driver mutations have been linked with cancer in other settings. Gene therapy has the ...